August 30, 2012
So we are now in the contents of CBA.
The implementing rules allow a multiple employer bargaining in such a case there will be as many CBA as there are employers. There common provisions but there are also specific provisions in which case there will be one instrument containing several collective bargaining agreements, in which case the ratification must be fulfilled as to each bargaining unit. If there is one BU that does not ratify the multiple employers CBA, what happens? That part of the CBA will not be effective, that part of the instrument will be taken out.
So, you have to make a differentiation as to the instrument and the agreement. The agreement is separate and distinct from the instrument, so if you have multiple employers the title would not collective bargaining agreement but collective bargaining agreements. That is why these provisions in the implementing rules of multiple-employer are easier said than done. Multiple CBA saun lang sultihon lisod buhaton.
Single enterprise bargaining, multiple employer bargaining you will find that in Rule 16 Section 3 up to Section 7 Book V of the implementing rules.
Look at section 7 it says: The two signed copies of the CBA which will be multi-employer bargaining shall be posted for at least 5 days in two conspicuous areas in each work place of the employer units concerned, the said CBA shall affect only those employees in the BU who have ratified it |

The same CBA with the department in accordance with the following rules: 1. Each employer there even if the same instrument will pay 1,000 because there are as many CBAs as there are employers.
So the CBA is just like any contract, let us say CBA:
Know all men by this present “this CBA entered into by and between: (now the paragraph describing the employer) XYZ Corp, a duly incorporated entity under Philippines laws with principal